Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]> writes: > just a small question, whether I'm blind, or whether rep really > doesn't ship a function like `position'. > > so `nth' gives the the value of the nth element: > > (setq mylist '("Crux" "StyleTab" "get-S-tabbed")) > (nth 1 mylist) > > => StyleTab > > but now for the opposite? other lisps do ship `position': > > (position "Crux" mylist) > > => 0 > > Now it seems to me that REP does not ship a position function? Atleast > I couldn't find one in the docs neither via `git grep'. I think that's > essential, so I'm sure it's somewhere. Or... did John expect everyone > to loop through lists?
I don't know of such a thing, but how often would you really need to know the position of an element? In most cases I can think of where you might use a position "member" would do what you need without the use of a position. -- Jeremy Hankins <[email protected]>
